Top 100 Lemon Quotes
#1. There are so many flavors of Coke now - Coke with lemon, Coke with vanilla, Coke with lime, Cherry Coke, and they've just brought out another new flavor - Coke with Pepsi.
David Letterman
#2. I'll give you my routine, my morning ritual: I get up, I do a bit of stretching, and then after showering and everything, I have a half cup of warm lemon water. I've been doing that forever. I love it. It just brightens everything for me.
Grace Hightower
#3. Forthwith I crush this acid lemon
Freeing myself of the malefic venom
Hither I let thee rotten
Let my curse be forgotten.
Camilla Isley
#4. Real danger had its own taste, vivid as lemon juice, by contrast with the weak lemonade of imagination.
Diana Gabaldon
#5. That's just it, Eva said with a gleam in her eyes that matched the rhinestones on her glasses, you had to get somebody to teach you, to facilitate. Literacy wasn't like a piece of my mama's lemon cake you handed over to somebody on a plate.
Minrose Gwin
#6. The writer's creed: If life hands you lemons--write The Lemon Cookbook!
Sharon Geltner
#7. The inclusion of lemon or lime juice in grog, made compulsory in 1795, therefore reduced the incidence of scurvy dramatically. And since beer contains no vitamin C, switching from beer to grog made British crews far healthier overall.
Tom Standage
#8. I'm no cook. When I want lemon on chicken, I spray it with Pledge.
Joan Rivers
#9. Your sort, always combining flavors! Sea urchins have to taste also like lemon, sugar also like chocolate, love also like paradise!
Giuseppe Tomasi Di Lampedusa
#10. She had to give her teachers credit: they were right to insist all pupils carry scissors, handkerchiefs, perfume and hair ribbons at all times. At some point she'd learn why they also required a red lace doily and a lemon.
Gail Carriger
#11. Buckets,' said Cimorene. 'Lots of buckets, and soap, and lemon juice. Where do you keep your buckets, Mendanbar?'
'Around somewhere,' Mendanbar said vaguely.
Patricia C. Wrede
#12. Sometimes the very best of all summer books is a blank notebook. Get one big enough, and you can practice sketching the lemon slice in your drink or the hot lifeguard on the beach or the vista down the hill from your cabin.
Michael Dirda
#13. When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make lemonade.
Andrew Carnegie
#14. The sun rose yellow as a lemon.
The sky was round and blue.
The birds looped clear water songs in the air.
Will and Jim leaned from their windows.
Nothing had changed.
Except the look in Jim's eyes.
"Last night ... " said Will. "Did or didn't it happen?
Ray Bradbury
#15. Today I will find something beautiful.
Delicate pink blossoms on a cherry tree.
The dove resting near the lemon buds.
Sunbeams smiling from sky to earth.
Smiling on me.
"Creating" in BREATHE IN
Eileen Granfors
#16. For all her chic thinness, she had an almost breakfast-cereal air of health, a soap-and-lemon cleanness, a rough pink darkening of the cheeks.
Truman Capote
#17. There was the Bennett Cocktail (gin, lime juice, bitters), the Bee's Knees (gin, honey, lemon juice), the Gin Fizz (gin, lemon juice, sugar, seltzer water), and the Southside (lemon juice, sugar syrup, mint leaves, gin, seltzer water).
Deborah Blum
#18. I'll cook a batch of brown rice or quinoa and keep it in the fridge, so when I get hungry, I can easily dress it up with olive oil, lemon, and salt and pepper, and then add veggies.
Marisa Miller
#19. When I think of flavours, I think colour, so lemon should be yellow and orange is orange.
Dylan Lauren
#20. On my desk, I always have a lemon or a lime drying. I love the fragrance. Also, a Staedtler eraser, a brush for the eraser and a pencil sharpener.
Maira Kalman
#21. The horse gave his arm a nudge when he reached to remove the headstall. With his large hand, he gave the animal an affectionate stroke on the neck that gave Charli a tug way deep down in her lemon yellow panties.
Candis Terry
#22. Scrub for Soft Hands Ingredients: ¼ cup of Sea Salt ¼ cup of Sugar 5 tbsp of Coconut Oil 2 tbsp of Honey 1 tbsp of Lemon Juice
Stacy L. Lafosi
#23. I imagined my fantasy co-author would look like Miranda Kerr, but have the intellect and comedic timing of Liz Lemon.
Judy Greer
#24. If life hands you a lemon, don't complain, but instead make lemonade to sell those who are thirsty from complaining.
Napoleon Hill
#25. French martinis or lemon drops or cosmos and impromptu viewings of Auntie Mame (the Rosalind Russell version, not the Lucille Ball version) or Steel Magnolias.
Kristen Ashley
#26. Marc to Gabe: What do you know about the lemon stuff? You weren't in desert combat. You were a park ranger. I'm not dissing that. It's an important job. Someone has to keep the chipmunks in line. I've watched Chip and Dale. I know how sneaky those little bastards can be.
Pamela Clare
#28. Diseases happen in acidic environments, so it's very important to keep your body alkaline. Keeping a diet high in leafy greens, spring water, fresh air, raw almonds, lemons, grapefruits, and warm water with juice from half a lemon helps lower acidity levels.
Valentina Zelyaeva
#29. With each new book of mine I have always the feeling that this time I have picked a lemon in the garden of literature.
P.G. Wodehouse
#30. But when you're a lemon who happens to be human, everyone tries to help you out
Finn Bell
#31. Michael looked around the beautiful garden with its many colored flowers, fragrant lemon trees, the old statures of the gods dug from ancient ruins, other newer ones of holy saints, the rose-colored walls across the villa. It was a lovely setting for the examination of twelve murderous apostles.
Mario Puzo
#32. Grandma, everyone out here is bleaching their anuses. What do I do?"
Her advice? "Baby, go outside in the sun and squirt a little lemon juice on it.
Mollie Gross
#33. One of the candidates at the early GOP debate, George Pataki, said his routine before every debate is to drink a diet lemon Snapple iced tea and pray. Which is also the advice Chris Christie gets from his doctor.
Jimmy Fallon
#34. James Bradshaw
1313 Lemon Drive
(Yes, the 'haunted' house)
1:00 a.m.
Embee
#35. The Lemon Tree
Important to read for those who care about the conflict between Palistinians and jews
Sandy Tolan
#36. When life throws a lemon at you, you throw it straight back at life and miss completely. That's my logic.
Anonymous
#38. I'm partial to a nice cup of vodka. I normally just drink it really simple with a little bit of lemon.
Cate Blanchett
#39. Working on the native-herb garden in the front corner of the yard. Already thriving: thyme, hyssop, spearmint, lemon balm, fennel, chamomile, marjoram. Must add: lavender, ambrosia, valerian, mugwort, pennyroyal, gillyflower, and (when it's warmer) sweet basil.
Neal Stephenson
#40. I adore summer entertaining. For a dinner party at the farm, I might prepare homemade fettuccine with porcini mushrooms, soft-shell crabs, spinach from the garden, and lemon tarts with fraises des bois for dessert.
Martha Stewart
#41. Anytime the perfume of orange and lemon groves wafts in the window; the human body has to feel suffused with a languorous well-being.
Frances Mayes
#42. There's a really stupid saying: When life hands you a lemon, make lemonade. Well, I have a better saying: When life hands you a lemon, shove that lemon up its stupid butt.
Gena Showalter
#43. I myself am not particularly interested in restaurant cooking. I don't really want to learn how to make a napoleon. I'd much rather learn how to make a very good lemon cake, which you can make in your own home. I like plain, old-fashioned home food.
Laurie Colwin
#44. I'm weird about fruity desserts like lemony, acidic, zesty ... I don't like lemon things and orange things, really.
Chrissy Teigen
#45. The last begonias wilting in the chalet's hanging baskets laced the air with a lemon and cinnamon fragrance.
Stephen Lloyd Jones
#46. I am like a lemon. I'm pressed for more juice. When I have fun, there's still juice. I am not dried up.
Carine Roitfeld
#47. Then there's your diet. You cut out sugars, fat, soy sauces ... anything that's nice. Tea and coffee is replaced by boiling water with lemon. It's amazing how quickly you get into it. There's also herbal tea and a lot of water, obviously ... about two litres a day.
Tom Hardy
#48. My unhealthiest habit is that I like eating white bread and butter. I don't know why, I just ate it as a kid. It's weird but I love it. My healthiest? I make a really good quinoa, chickpea and tahini lemon dressing salad, or I make a really bomb green smoothie.
Courtney Eaton
#49. The Hitch-Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy also mentions alcohol. It says that the best drink in existence is the Pan Galactic Gargle Blaster, the effect of which is like having your brains smashed out with a slice of lemon wrapped round a large gold brick.
Douglas Adams
#50. Look, just tell me where that lemon came from and I'll shut up and go away.
Ricky Gervais
#51. Not so wide that a woman would feel as if she might fall in, and not so small it looked as if he'd just sucked a lemon like Ronald Trump's, or whatever his name was. All in all, Richard's lips looked just right.
Linda Howard
#52. Lemon Tree is well worth seeing as a first-class artistic achievement bridging two civilizations.
Andrew Sarris
#53. We stopped cleaning our houses with lemon water and vinegar like our mothers did, and we clean with chemicals. We're breathing chemicals, and then everyone wonders why cancer is the biggest killer.
Suzanne Somers
#54. When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.
Mary Ann Shaffer
#56. I have to have lemon and honey. I have to have apple cider vinegar, Braggs. And I have to have either Red Vines or Twizzlers. These things, you know, are the things that help my vocal performance.
Mary J. Blige
#57. When life gives you a lemon, chuck it right back ... and add a few lemons of your own.
Clara DeLemos
#58. I made stupid decisions as a kid, or as a young adult, but I'm trying to be now, I'm trying to take this lemon and make lemonade.
Kevin Mitnick
#59. If you can't afford organic food and are unable to grow your own, it's crucial to wash all inorganic produce very carefully to minimize the toxins you consume. Soak everything for 20 minutes in water with vinegar and salt or water with fresh lemon juice and salt.
Suzanne Somers
#60. A dry martini,' he said. 'One. In a deep champagne goblet.' ...
Just a moment. Three measures of Gordon's, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it's ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon-peel. Got it?
Ian Fleming
#61. The milk of human kindness was kept often in the larder, and the tea served with lemon.
John Halperin
#62. A grapefruit is ionly a lemon that saw an oppurtunity and took advantage of it.
Oscar Wilde
#63. So the freshness lives on
in a lemon,
in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,
the proportions, arcane and acerb.
Pablo Neruda
#64. Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom, Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom, Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows, And the groves are of laurel and myrtle and rose!
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
#65. Being a singer now I have to get all fussy ... I must have my ginger and lemon and all that.
Graham Coxon
#66. When the life gives you lemon, simply sell them and buy something sweet like chocolate
Samuel Ariel Parker
#67. Lick hand. Sprinkle salt. Do the shot. Suck the lemon.
Gemma Burgess
#68. when life hands you lemons you should take them . . . and whack life by the butt with those damn lemon until its bruised and then go munch on some chocolate
Mei
#69. If Life hands you a lemon, throw it at someone
John Rzeznik
#70. Everything we've been through in our lives we've done together. I held her hand at your parent's funeral, remember your mom's lemon pie every time I go through the produce section. I know she hates storms and love being there for her when she reaches out.
Adriana Locke
#71. Hey you know what they say you should do when life gives you lemons?"
The sudden change in topic made my head spin, "Make lemonade?" I answered weakly.
"Lemonade? Who the fuck do you hang out with, Girl Scouts? No, when life gives you lemons, you add vodka and make a lemon drop.
Cardeno C.
#72. Arthur shook his head and sat down. He looked up.
"I thought you must be dead ... " he said simply.
"So did I for a while," said Ford, "and then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks. I kept myself amused all that time jumping in and out of a gin and tonic.
Douglas Adams
#73. In my 'Big Dinners' cookbook, I recreated my mother's recipe for crab dip. The creamy dressing for this dip, made with mayonnaise, tomato paste, a touch of honey, sliced chives, lemon juice and zest, horseradish and Tabasco, is reminiscent of Thousand Island dressing.
Tom Douglas
#74. The outside world might have finally turned into autumn, but inside the Waverley house it still smelled of summer. It was lemon verbena day, so the house was filled with a sweet-tart that conjured images of picnic blankets and white clouds like true-love hearts.
Sarah Addison Allen
#75. An anthropologist at Tulane has just come back from a field trip to New
Guinea with reports of a tribe so primitive that they have Tide but not
new Tide with lemon-fresh Borax.
David Letterman
#76. Countess Nadasdy served the tea. Miss Tarabotti took hers with milk, Miss Dair took hers with lemon, and the vampires took theirs with a dollop of blood
Gail Carriger
#77. It's not the nineteenth century; I'm not meant to be judged on how good a housekeeper I am. Getting down on the floor with a lemon and a bucket of vinegar does not make me a better person.
Emily Matchar
#78. I think garlic is absolutely critical. Lemon is absolutely critical to boost the immune system. Olive oil is absolutely critical ... just one teaspoon, it will last the whole month.
Manto Tshabalala-Msimang
#79. The faint of lemon verbena surrounded her, floating gently from Eleanor Butler's silk gown and silken hair. It was the fragrance that had always been part of Ellen O'Hara, the scent for Scarlett of comfort, of safety, of love, of life before the War
Alexandra Ripley
#80. If I could just get a piece of lemon, it'd be great.
Rip Torn
#81. Squeeze some lemon on it, a dab of hot sauce, throw the oyster down the back of your throat, take a shot of vodka, and try to forget you just ate snot from a rock.
Jim Gaffigan
#82. I get up between 6:30 and 8 am. I used to make a cup of coffee first thing, but now I have warm water with a bit of lemon juice in it. I've cut down on things as I was getting fat.
Melvin Burgess
#83. I get up between 6:30 and 7 A.M., and my morning routine is always the same: hot water and lemon, eggs on toast and rose oil on the face.
Alice Temperley
#84. We're all doctors trading sadness for numbness
grass looks much greener but it's green-painted cement
the mayor's machines are there cleaning the pavement
you can't make dirt clean so we'll just lemon-scent it
Modest Mouse
#85. I stared at the doors and rewound the evening wondering how I got myself in this latest predicament. Without lemon drops to blame (I had diet with my spicy beef burrito), I could only blame the power tools. Now what normal girl got turned on by power tools? I was so weird!
Kristen Ashley
#86. And then I decided I was a lemon for a couple of weeks.
Douglas Adams
#87. Drinking lemon water as soon as you wake up spikes your energy levels physically and mentally. Lemon water gives you steady, natural energy that lasts the length of the day by improving nutrient absorption in your stomach.
Travis Bradberry
#88. Meadowlark Lemon is one very clever man, unique and truly one of a kind.
Mickey Rooney
#89. Gone were the days when she would stand on the deck lighting lemon-scented candles without then having to eat the wax
Augusten Burroughs
#90. Divided like boys and girls at a summer camp, egg whites and yolks in grandma's lemon-meringue-pie recipe, dogs and cats in pet heaven.
Dennis Vickers
#91. One day I might feel
Mean,
And squinched up inside,
Like a mouth sucking on a
Lemon.
The next day I could
Feel
Whole and happy
And right,
Like an unbitten apple.
Mary Neville
#92. I spent 30 minutes each morning rubbing my body with half a lemon to lighten my skin.
Josephine Baker
#93. they always mentioned his name. For her, it was as if they were constantly squeezing lemon juice on an open wound.
Amanda Laneley
#94. Charlotte decided to change the subject. "You wouldn't believe what goes in these things." She offered her perfumed wrists. "Here, tell me which scent you prefer. Lilies and whale vomit, or lemon balm and beaver's arse.
Tessa Dare
#95. Exploiting the stupidity of the American voter is fun and easy: kinda like squeezing a lemon.
Jonathan Gruber
#96. See that?" said Lemon. "The car tracks turn off there."
"How do you know it's not the parks people on a golf cart thingie?"
"You don't golf, do you, Kate?"
"No, I'm too young to die of boredom.
Carsten Stroud
#97. You too could have a mind like mine. Sharp and flexible, like... a rubber lemon.
Ed Cooke
#98. Salt and citrus," Cairdine Farrier said, joining her at the stern with a lemon in each hand. "The chemicals of empire."
"Salt to preserve food for long journeys," Baru recited. "Citrus for scurvy.
Seth Dickinson
#99. Sure, they only had ten days to stop the giants from waking Gaia. Sure, he could die before dinnertime. But he loved being told that something was impossible. It was like someone handing him a lemon meringue pie and telling him not to throw it. He just couldn't resist the challenge.
Rick Riordan
#100. Anton was in his office, short and wide behind the desk in a gabardine suit the color of lemon ice cream. His face was sunlamp brown.
Ross Macdonald
